[algogeeks] Lucky numbers

2011-07-26 Thread Nikhil Gupta
Please suggest a good algo for this : You have numbers 1 to n (consider them arranged in a circular order) Then starting from the first number, all alternate numbers are deleted. Once the entire range is traversed with this procedure, the same is performed from the beginning again (as they are

[algogeeks] Lucky numbers

2009-01-03 Thread kannan
All the numbers from 1 to infinity are written in sequence: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14. in the first iteration, every second number is removed, leaving: 1,3,5,7,9,11,13 in the second iteration, every third number in the above sequence is removed, thus leaving: 1,3,7,9,13 in the